Justice
Hughes and the Senate Investigation Committee gave their unqualified
approval to the management of America's aircraft production by John D.
Ryan. Mr. Ryan resigned his charge as head of the Aircraft Production
Board in November, 1918. His last public announcement was of the
invention of an aerial telephone, by which the commander of a squadron
standing on the ground could communicate with-aviators flying in battle
formation.
CHAPTER XLIX
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF THE AMERICAN FORCES
Since the fateful day when Cain slew Abel, thereby setting a precedent
for human warfare, no fighter has been so well protected from disease
and discomfort of mind and body, so speedily cured of his wounds, as the
American soldier and sailor during the World War.
The basis of this remarkable achievement was sanitary education preached
first by competent physicians and sociologists; then by newspapers to
the civilian population; and ultimately by the soldiers and sailors
themselves, each man acting as an evangel of personal and community
health and sanitation. In 1914, before war was declared, the words
"venereal diseases" were relegated to the advertisements of quacks and
patent medicines. When the war ended, virtually every young and old man
and woman knew the meaning of the words and the miseries that come in
their train.
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